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Covid-19: Did the pandemic start in a Wuhan lab? – BBC Newsnight
More than 18 months on from the start of the pandemic, the claim Covid-19 may have leaked from a Chinese laboratory is gaining traction. Why are the origins of Covid-19 still a mystery? Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog
After the virus was first detected in China, authorities linked early Covid cases to a seafood market in Wuhan, leading scientists to theorise the virus first passed to humans from animals.
But in recent weeks the controversial claim that the pandemic might have leaked from a Chinese laboratory – once dismissed by many as a fringe conspiracy theory – has been gaining traction.
Now, US President Joe Biden has announced an urgent investigation that will look into the theory as a possible origin of the disease.
So what do we know about the competing theories – and why does the debate matter?
Newsnight’s Mark Urban reports.
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The trial opened on a long awaited antitrust case that could see Meta forced to sell two of its social media sites Instagram and WhatsApp, after being accused of creating a monopoly.
Adam speaks to the BBC’s social media investigations correspondent Marianna Spring and Mark Scott of the Atlantic Council, asking, what does this court case tell us about the relationship between Trump and big tech?
Also, why are we talking about Katy Perry going to space? Adam is joined by science journalist Jonathan Amos and Suzie Imber, Professor of space physics at the University of Leicester.
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The US and China currently have the world’s biggest economies but which country does the rest of the world think will dominate in future? The BBC’s David Botti looks at the numbers.
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The BBC’s Jonah Fisher tries a local delicacy in the remote Wa region of Shan State in eastern Myanmar – fried wasp.
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The lynching of a man over rumours he kept and consumed beef was premeditated and not spontaneous, an Indian commission of inquiry has concluded. A panel from the National Commission for Minorities visited the village near Delhi where Mohammad Akhlaq – a Muslim – was beaten to death. They said a Hindu temple had been used to plan the attack. Government ministers of the Hindu nationalist BJP have said the incident was a spontaneous expression of anger.
But why are Indians up in arms about beef?
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BBC Tech Now reporter Alasdair Keane finds out how a new science centre is playing a major role in the conservation of some of the world’s most threatened species.
The International Centre for Zoo Science in Chester, UK, is equipped with state-of-the-art technology to assess the health of plants and animals.
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